Michael Kausch (actor)

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Michael Kausch, 2003

Michael Kausch (born March 11, 1949 in Mettmann ) is a German film, television and theater actor .

Life

Kausch studied from 1972 to 1975 at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama , today Berlin University of the Arts . During his studies he performed with Jutta Kausch as “Jutta and Michel Kausch” in Berlin folk pubs such as Go-In and Steve Club and carried some of his own chansons, some of which were texts by Fritz Grasshoff , Bertolt Brecht , Franz Kießling , Günter Frorath and Georg Bungter in front. Afterwards he was a member of the GRIPS-Theater Berlin until 1978 .

He had his first TV role in 1978 in the Wolfgang Staudte multi-part series Der eiserne Gustav . Other roles in German TV series such as Attention Customs! (1980), Christian and Christiane (1982), The Pawlaks - A Story from the Ruhr Area (1982), Contact Please… (1983) and Animals and People (1984).

In 1984 he played the role of Ernst Simon in four episodes of Edgar Reitz 's eleven-part epic Heimat - Eine deutsche Chronik . He achieved great fame among the television audience as a lawyer Giselmund Arnold at the side of Manfred Krug in Liebling Kreuzberg from 1985 to 1989 (broadcast 1986–1990 from the 1st to 3rd season). In addition, he played from 1986 to 1988 in the Black Forest Clinic the Dr. Angel. From now on Kausch could be seen in many well-known German television series in guest roles, e.g. B. A case for two (1991), Bülowbogen practice (1992), Our teacher, Doctor Specht (1992), Salto Postale (1993), The men from K3 (1993), Dr. Stefan Frank (1995) or Wolffs Revier (1996). He has appeared in numerous TV films, for example in Matti Geschonneck's Tödliche Rettung (1997) or in the Rosamunde Pilcher film adaptation, Bloom of Life (1999).

In 2004, Kausch played Ernst Simon again in the Heimat trilogy in all six episodes of Heimat 3 - Chronicle of a Turning Point, as well as Dr. Engel 2005 in the Black Forest Clinic - Continuation The next generation . In 2006 and 2018 he appeared as a guest on the television series Wilsberg .

Kausch was and is also active as a theater actor, especially at Berlin theaters such as the Renaissance Theater , the Schiller Theater and the Schlossparktheater . Important roles were in Ibsen plays such as Nora or Ein Puppenheim , Die Frau vom Meer or Gespenster , as well as in Brecht's The Petty Bourgeois Wedding or Shakespeare's Richard II.

In the meantime, Kausch was married to actress Susanna Capurso and has a son with her.

Today he lives in Aalen on the Eastern Alb .

accident

In 1990, while rehearsing for a seminar, Kausch fell 15 meters through an almost floor-to-ceiling window. He was in a coma for a week, had a ruptured spleen , traumatic brain injury and ten broken ribs. The rehab lasted a year.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Discography

  • Jutta and Michel Kausch: Please, don't fall , LP, Polydor 1973
  • Jutta and Michel Kausch: … I don't like LP, Polydor 1974 all alone

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Spatzek: Visiting colleague Susanna Capurso in Berlin ( Memento from October 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kausch, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film, television and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettmann